Westwind

He's bad news. Always has been, and someone always seems to be stupid enough to let him in somewhere. ("Oh we believe in second chances!"....and third, and fourth, and fifth....) We've cut relations with Gatesville and The Pacific over them working with him on separate occasions in the past. Perhaps he should be told that continued attempts to target a forum he's been banned from is grounds for a civil lawsuit.

'Tis done. *Westwind's last Administrative Act*

Amen. I'll continue the rant for you. I haven't watched mainstream or cable news in years. It's all worthless propaganda and lies. I'm much more informed than those buffoons. Even the local paper puts out "Breaking News" about things I've known about for months, sometimes years. It's pathetic. Most 'journalism' is dead. (There ARE good journalists, but they are hard to find - the media doesn't want them, they aren't entertaining enough for ratings.....gotta get that almighty cash!) And I see millions of idiots on social media regurgitating those lies. God help Mankind, the fundamentals of brainwashing are in play. Once upon a time I decided to buy a 22 rifle. World food reserves were low, the economy in shambles, and being in the middle of nowhere I need to make sure I can get something to eat if I need it. (Once upon a time a train derailment took out the power for a week here in the dead of winter, one must be prepared for anything here, no one else is going to take care of you.) A friend of mine is an ex-cop and border patrol. Used to go undercover infiltrating gangs. He makes his own knives, repairs guns. He told me I was choosing the wrong gun. "You're disabled, you need to be able to defender yourself when things go bad. You need a handgun." Okay, so I think about a 22 handgun along with the rifle. "No" he said. "A 22 will only make an attacker mad at you." He approved of the Smith and Wesson 40 I bought. I fired it once. I don't like handguns, I like rifles. I know it works, hope I never need it. If you are being attacked, cops won't protect you. They aren't there with you. And when they do get the call, they aren't going to be there for 20 minutes. You MUST be able to protect yourself. Look at those keystone cops in Broward County. They stood outside while the kids were murdered. They didn't protect them. The Sheriff told them to stand down. SWAT officers from another county trying to respond were disciplined for trying to help. WHAT THE HELL!?!?!?! Have you seen the video of Sheriff Israel speaking at a SWAT training session? He tells them they should "run and hide". WHAT THE HELL!?!?! That man needs to be in prison. Innocent children's blood is on his hands. The "No NRA" organization that's fundraising for gun control in Florida? They were formed the day after the shooting. Profiting from death. They were formed by the LGBTQ rights organization Equality Florida. The "No NRA" logo on their website is hosted on the Equality Florida server. Equality Florida is run by yet another Democratic organization of which Sheriff Israel is a member. It's a political sham. The money is headed for the Democratic National Committee, because the DNC is broke and desperate for money in an election year. FOR SHAME!!!! Raising money on the deaths of 17 children so you can get re-elected. There's a special place in hell for those people. There needs to be consequences for these horrendous actions, and it has nothing to do with guns. People are so terribly ill informed. My daughter and I went to see Black Panther last weekend. We think it sucked. They bragged about all this 'advanced technology' that no one else has. I've seen RL weapons much more advanced than that make-believe. You'd be stunned to know what's going on in the middle east these days. The GCC has weapons far beyond what the US has. There are mini-drone fired missiles that can implode a man in the middle of a crowd without harming anyone in the crowd. I've seen it in action. A man turned into a spray of blood and was gone. The crowd looked around trying to figure out what happened. Directed pressure wave explosions that can take out a gun emplacement without harming the soldiers. There are remote little 'Watchers' flying around everywhere in Syria. They took out all of Syria, Iran and Russia's generals. The war is all but over there, but the media will never tell you. ISIS is done too. North Korea threat is over, and Iran is next. Peace is breaking out all over the world and all the media can do is talk about hookers and broadcast know-nothing propagandized kids for gun control. Idiots one and all. There are US Navy ships with lasers now. Fighter jets with lasers. There are "Rods of God" kinetic weapons, which likely took out that mountain Kim Jong Un was testing nukes in. All his nuke scientists were killed. Hasn't been a nuke test or missile launch since then. Why do you think he's suing for peace now? Yes, there will be peace by the end of the year, although I'm hearing as early as late June. The Trump/Kim meeting is only a formality, it's already a done deal. They already met in November. The Korean War was never concluded, but it will be this year. It's a miracle. In coming years, things will get better for the North Korean people. Thank God! The media wants war and conflict, it's good for ratings. They don't give a shit about you and I. They don't want peace. They don't know how to make money off of peace. Did they report that Saudi Arabia and Israel are now allies? The GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) gave Israel $3 Trillion dollars to develop those advanced weapons. Yes, I said Trillion. The Saudi's have the money and the Israelis have the tech. GCC is why ISIS is gone. GCC is why Syria is over. GCC is slowing working on Yemen. The GCC has an entirely new kind of soldier. 50 of these soldiers amphibiously landed in Yemen and divided into two groups. One group attacked and killed 10,000 Houthis rebels. The other held off 40,000 rebel troops.Those 40k retreated from 25 GCC soldiers after they were reduced to 20k. And they are quietly supporting the protests in Iran that have been ongoing since December. The Mullahs are finally going down. Pay close attention to MbS in Saudi Arabia. He's a hero and is going to reshape the middle east. Women can now drive in Saudi, go to soccer matches, vote....all because of MbS. People are going to love him. It is the most bloodless, successful military actions ever. GCC was able to evacuate an entire ISIS held city without a single death. 200,000 were scared into evacuating the city without firing a single bullet. And that's just some areaa they won't tell you about. Major changes are happening worldwide. Changes for the better and the media doesn't want you to know about it because they can't monetize it. The world is changing. Don't be left behind. I could go on and on.....but it's all so far out of what people are being told, no one believes reality anymore because it doesn't match the lies they've been told to believe. More on Syria? To my knowledge, all but one of Syria's generals are dead. All Iran's generals in Syria are dead (this is helping the protests in Iran - the Revolutionary Guard is only able to defend Tehran now). They keep showing old clips of their top General Suleiman in Iran to try to cover up the fact he was killed in Syria. Russia has been pulling out of Syria for months. It's all over but the conclusion and clean up. It will take time yes, but the worse is over. Turkey invaded Syria again to attack the Kurds. They told their people they were victorious and showed film on Turkish TV to show the victory. The film was fake. The soldiers in the film were using blanks, not real bullets, it was file footage from training. The reality? The Turks lost bad, turned tail and ran home. They've been pretty quiet since then. Meanwhile, Hezbollah in Lebanon is in the process of being dismantled...again by the GCC. Things are safe enough in Lebanon that the US is giving the Lebanese Army new weapons. I've seen maps of all Hezbollah's missile sites and weapon stores scattered across Lebanon and Syria. They are going down. GCC is infiltrating them at the squad level. Where is CNN? FOX? NBC? ABC? CBS? BBC? Out to lunch worrying about social justice bullshit. TURN IT OFF! I've been privy to some very indepth, horrible truths lately. What's been done the past 30+ years is worse than you worst nightmare. 60 years even. Some of it I've known since the 90's, but damn....it's worse than I imagined. Turn off the fantasy propaganda. It's not good for you.

Perhaps you can help us with the annual Zombie infection NS suffers.

After mis-thinking this and trying some things, unless someone has another idea that fits the forum mechanics, your options are: 1. The voting forum must have all access removed from non-citizens (completely hidden to all but citizens) to prevent them from being able to vote in polls in that particular forum. (for any forum in which you want to restrict poll access) 2. Remove permission from non-citizens for poll voting. This will effect non-citizens globally, prohibiting voting everywhere on the forum. (This permission is by usergroup, not by forum, so it's a forum-wide permission) 3. Scrap poll voting for 'voice voting'. This is always the most secure voting method on any forum. I'd avoid option 2. This is why we 'voice vote' in Equilism (same forum software).

Be careful out there, RL can be a scary place. See ya when you can!

*chuckles* We each live in the world that we made for ourselves. (except when others impose their world on us) Welcome to TWP, make yourself at home

'Tis done

Done. Yup, done too!

I suppose I should also mention that you'll find more folks around to chat with on our Discord server. You can find the link under the 'TWP Chat Services' menu at the top of the forum. (although, I'm almost never there myself, I'm more of a forum rat )

The game is having some issues, and ADMIN is working to fix it. We're all suffering NS withdrawl symptoms at the moment NS Server Downtime thread: https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=428042&start=50 BTW, Welcome!

*sniffs....sniffs again....breaks out sobbing* But, but.....we'll miss you! Fair travels to you, may the winds of fate blow in your favor.

I have recieved tg's trying to convince me to change my vote. Their bottom line is "it doesn't force nations to use the word 'marriage'!" This is a childish argument. Not every WA member may have 'marriage' at all. So you're going to force every nation into 'marriage' even if it's against their culture and law? No, that tramples individual rights of belief as well as national sovereignty. Simply recognize the right of free association through domestic partnerships, regardless of what they may be called, (as this proposal does) and you have secured and upheld that right. I'm sorry, but people are really stupid these days.

Will there be a prize for the nation that makes the first post on the 8,000th page?

The WA get's stuck on these hot-button issues now and then. It seems to me that the only way to resolve it, has been to pass something that will address the issue without imposing upon other positions, and I think this is the only proposal that will do that. Thus I voted in favor, to put the issue to rest. Yes, it does have flaws and loopholes. But I feel it's flaws are overshadowed by the threading of the needle it does to uphold individual rights while not imposing on national sovereignty, or other individual rights.